{"id":1172240,"date":"2026-08-27T12:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1172240\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T12:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:42:17","slug":"fantasy-premier-league-five-liverpool-players-to-watch-for-gameweek-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1172240\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy Premier League: Five Liverpool players to watch for Gameweek 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Liverpool players to watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There was plenty for FPL managers to take from Liverpool&#8217;s opening-weekend performance in their 2-2 draw at Newcastle United.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds had 27 shots at St. James&#8217; Park in total, which is immediately encouraging when looking to buy a player in FPL for their attacking output.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dominik Szoboszlai<\/strong> (\u00a37.0m) converting a 99th-minute penalty was celebrated by more than 42 per cent of the managers who owned him, but there were other numbers that caught the eye too.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Join and play the game alongside Liverpool supporters <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/preml.ge\/fpl2627liverpool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Cody Gakpo<\/strong> (\u00a37.0m) scored Liverpool&#8217;s first goal and finished the game with six shots &#8211; more than any other player over the weekend&#8217;s fixtures as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>He also reached the defensive contribution threshold, meaning that he picked up the additional two defensive contribution points, resulting in a 12-point tally, which was the most across the Liverpool team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Victor Munoz<\/strong> (\u00a36.5m) offering an assist from the bench makes him a player to watch over the coming weeks as he adapts to life in the Premier League. <\/p>\n<p>Munoz also supplied four crosses and had two shots during his cameo on Tyneside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool players to watch There was plenty for FPL managers to take from Liverpool&#8217;s opening-weekend performance in their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1172241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8815],"tags":[1050,748,393,1051,4884,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,179,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,1042,1047,1043,16,15,1048],"class_list":["post-1172240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liverpool","tag-alisson","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-firmino","tag-great-britain","tag-homepage","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-the-reds","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-van-dijk"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117167531294377814","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1172241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}